IMAPCOPY(1)

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version 1.04 · 5 versions
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👑 IMAPCOPY 👑 — the IMAPCopy User Manual, bestie edition

okay so. you found the manual page for imapcopy, and honestly? iconic of you. this is a IMAP backup, copy and migration tool and it's about to be your new obsession. let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

imapcopy — IMAP backup, copy and migration tool 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

imapcopy

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, just vibes. she runs on a config file, periodt 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

first things first bestie: go read imapcopy -h for the reference docs. that's where the real tea is.

and there's an example configuration file chilling in the directory /usr/share/doc/imapcopy/examples — go look at it, it will literally save your life 🫶

now. the part we need to talk about. 😭

Sadly IMAPCopy does not have builtin SSL/TLS support, which means you can not connect to most modern IMAP servers. it's giving 2001, and not in a cute way.

the workaround (iykyk) is to run this in parallel with IMAPCopy:

stunnel -c -f -d 1143 -r imap.boh.org:993 -P ''

and then modify the configuration to connect to port 1143 on localhost. here we've assumed that imap.boh.org is your IMAP server, so swap that for whatever yours actually is, obviously.

heads up bestie: if you need this hack for both source and destination, then you have to use two instances of stunnel and you have to configure them for different ports, of course (e.g. 1143 and 2143). don't try to be clever and reuse one port, it will not slay 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • Armin Diehl <ad@ardiehl.de>
    • Author of IMAPCopy. the main character 👑
  • Gergely Risko <risko@debian.org>
    • Wrote this manpage for the Debian system. our scribe 🎀

Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Armin Diehl, Gergely Risko

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs ✨

this was imapcopy, version dated 09/04/2016, served fresh from the IMAPCOPY(1) manual — thanks for reading, mwah 💋

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